Sex and Marriage in Machiavelli’s Mandragola: A Close(t) Reading

Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

This article carries out a close reading of Niccolò Machiavelli’s play Mandragola (The mandrake root) from the perspective of sex and gender studies. In so doing, it takes into consideration what the play says or suggests about sexual desire, sexual practices, and conjugal life. This somewhat...

Sex and Sexual Attitudes in Seventeenth-Century England: The Evidence from Puritan Diaries

Article | Contributor(s): Theodore De Welles

Sex, Blasphemy, and the Block: The Trial and Execution of Ludwig Hätzer

Article | Contributor(s): Geoffrey Dipple

In early 1529, the Protestant authorities of Constance executed Ludwig Hätzer for disobedience and moral depravity. Although the court documents avoided any reference to his religious teachings, contemporaries speculated about the role that perceptions—that he was an Anabaptist who espoused...

Sexual Politics and the Interpretation of Nature in Spenser's Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Laws

SFSGEC - Learning from the failures of biofuels governance

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Carol Hunsberger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.102

While many policies designed to increase the use of biofuels were promoted at least in part as a climate change solution, biofuels made from agricultural crops are increasingly seen as part of the problem when considering global environmental change. Research on the greenhouse gas emissions...

SFSGEC - Meatification and the madness of the doubling narrative

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Tony Weis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.105

Since 2008, there has been an increasingly influential narrative that world crop production must (“sustainably”) double from current levels in order to feed over nine billion people by 2050 (FAO, 2009; Ray, Mueller, West, & Foley, 2013; Soil Association, 2010; Tilman, Balzer, Hill &...

SFSGEC - Peasant agriculture, seeds, and biodiversity

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Faris Ahmed | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.106

Farmers and food providers have created and maintained the knowledge and biodiversity that is the basis for the planet’s food supply for thousands of years. Yet seeds and biodiversity have been at the margins of the mainstream discourses on food security. New thinking and global events are...

SFSGEC - Sustainable food systems and global environmental change

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.127

There is growing evidence and concern of the role of mainstream industrial agriculture in contributing to environmental degradation and global climate change. In this section we examine three different aspects of the relationship between agriculture, nature, and society.

SFSGEC - SYNTHESIS - Sustainable food systems and global environmental change

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Helena Shilomboleni | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.110

This article responds to the debates surrounding how best to merge sustainable food systems and sustainability goals in the context of biofuel production, industrial livestock operations, and peasant agriculture. Various new initiatives meant to improve the “sustainability” of agricultural...

Sgarbi, Marco. Francesco Robortello (1516–1567): Architectural Genius of the Humanities

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Faini

Shagan, Ethan H. The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Article | Contributor(s): Archie R. MacGregor

Shakespeare and authorship attribution methodologies

2022-06-13 19:59:49 | Book chapter | Contributor(s): Hugh Craig | https://doi.org/10.25547/VP7B-TG87

Stylometry, Shakespeare, word n-grams, Faithful Shepherdess, Fletcher, law of large numbers, validation by segment and by work,

Shakespeare and the Actor's Body

Article | Contributor(s): Alexander Leggatt

Shakespeare and the Archpriest Controversy: A Study of Some New Sources

2023-06-27 18:04:10 | Article | Contributor(s): Raymond C. Shady

Shakespeare and the Players

2023-05-11 22:09:04 | Article | Contributor(s): Michael John Goodman

This is a review of Shakespeare and the Players. 

Shakespeare Census

2023-05-11 21:59:54 | Article | Contributor(s): Andrew Griffin

This is a review of Shakespeare Census. 

Shakespeare in the Philippines: A Digital Archive of Research and Performance

Article | Contributor(s): Michaela Atienza

This is a review of Shakespeare in the Philippines: A Digital Archive of Research and Performance. 

Shakespeare Quartos Archive

2023-05-11 22:17:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Pangallo

This is a review of Shakespeare Quartos Archive.

Shakespeare's Joan and the Great Whore of Babylon

Article | Contributor(s): Patrick Ryan

Inconfortables avec le portrait injurieux que fait Shakespeare de Jeanne d'Arc, les critiques tendent à considérer 1 Henry 6 comme un exemple de défaut d’expression relevant de la période d'apprentissage de l'auteur dramatique. Néanmoins, le public élisabéthain a reçu cette pièce de théâtre...

Shakespeare's Last Humanist

Article | Contributor(s): Alan Fisher